Means for indicating broken rails.



3. GAHTSIDE. MEANS FOR INDIOATING BROKEN RAILS. APPLICATION TILED MAR. 5, 1912.

. Patented Apr. 1%, 191%.

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:Zhlhlllil mfiICA'l ING- BEGKEN RAILS.

W Specification of Letters Patent.

sentient-inn filed March 5, 1912.

Patented see, it, late. Serial lil'o..681,tl78.

mzmay concern:

"win that l, Jensen .l-l. GARTSIDE, the United it lie, in the county front axle 9, on one end of which is mounted a wheel 10, with two flanges 11, adapted to lie upon either side of the rail. (in the opposite end of the axle is mounted another wheel 12 havinn hut one flange 13, which lies upon the inside of the rail. On the rear end of the frame, .is mounted a rear axle carrying a flange Wheel 10 similar to the front flange wheel 10, the :t'orn'ier being in alinenient with the latter so that the two will run upon the same rail of the track.

On the frame is mounted a supply disk or wheel 15 having the strip of fragile material, such as paper 16, Wound thereon, said strip of fragile material running from'the supply disk around the moistening' roller 17 then around the pressure roll 18, said pres sure roll adapted to force the strip of fragile material against one face of the rail Web causing it to stick thereto because of the adhesive material such as cement carried by one face of the fragile material.

In practice it has been found that when a rail is cracked or when partially broken, the ends of the rail at the crack Will remain ates, residingat 1 of Philadelphia .lennsylvania, have invented i and useful Improvement in for indicating Broken Rails, of lne following" a specification.

invention relates to new and useful cements in means for indicating l a of a railway track, has for vo provide an exceedingly simple device of this character which adily and quickly side of a rail and indicate rail in such may he applied to either a break in said I a manner that the track Walker new readily the same, permit-ting him ,1, any trains which may be passing he track therehy preventing great loss and property. acco finishing: the above named ohf secure to either side of the Web of i, a uitable strip of fragile material per, Hts a thin passes over the ii, the meeting ends of said rail l Hell i ail: will he Lepressed causing said close together, While in their normal posiparted sulliciently to tear the tion, but When Weight is applied to the rall 1d this tear may he readily at the point of fracture, said fracture will ti-acli be enlarged and this happens when a train is plan View of a portion of a 181321581119, over the rail at this polnt. In

honing; a device for e "l upon the ra real.

i. 2 cal no; out hodied, '1 traeh tin-n lacin' the tra 'u m order to ascertain the point of fracture'in ils, and Fig. 2, an

a rail, the strip of fragile materlel is temporarily secured to the rails of that portion of the track Which is being inspected and it is only necessary that the fragile material remain in position during the inspection which for live miles of track might be 10111 and a half and as the approximately one 1 expansion or contraction of a rail during Walker. I l

my invention as here emts the rails of a railway or the ordinary construcn6 3, a Web l and a head e of the Wei) of both rails in of fragile material 6, pref- 'lhis strip of paper is of that length of time is infinitesimally small, to extend from the base l 1t heconles unnecessary to compensate for .l oi? the rail and of sutlicient the ditterence 1n the co-efiiclent of the exreach from end to end, of ..h the exception of that porns covered by fish plates. At i e the fish plates are situated, Y to partthe strip of fragile 'iin fa ten it to the nest rail,

' 1 end of the fish rile material may upon the rails either by nical .means, and l have one manner of placing said a'ial upon the rail.

y'ele eiziniprisine; a triang guhaving jo-uri'ialed therein a pension between the steel material.

The railroads at th track walkers, in a rail end fragile lie passing over this track, and to notify the 2. In combination with the rails of a railproper department, so that the damage may way track, strips of fragile material pasted be repaired. to the webs of said rails throughout approxi- Of course I do not WiSll to be limited to niately their lengths, whereby a fracture in the exact details of construction and comany of the rails will be visible to casual binatlon of elements as here shown, as these i inspection.

may be varied within the limits of the ap- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto pended claims, without departing from the 1 afixed my signature in the presence of two spiHrit of mg imflefitiol. b d subscribing witnesses.

avingt us u y escri e my invention, T what I claim as new and useful, is JOSEPH GARTSIDE' 1. In combination with the rails of a railf \Vitnesses: way track, strips of paper attached to said T ALBERT S. MAY, W. J. MAY,

rails throughout their lengths.

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